Hey friends, I thought about submitting this as a news story when it happened, but ended up deciding against it. I'm not making fun of the posted HBO story. But here's another, much stranger mention of Morrissey by a singificantly lower-profile comic. This happened... ehhhh... around the beginning of August 2005, a little over a month before I moved out of Los Angeles.

My submitted news story title was going to be something like Sixth-Billed Comic at Highbrow Video Store Mentions Morrissey, but my internet was down for 2 days after I got back from the video store, and by then, the moment had passed...

Anyway, I was at Rocket Video in West Hollywood, on LaBrea, on a Saturday night at the beginning of last August, renting a huge stack of stuff and unexpectedly discovering that, for some reason, several comics were performing at the store that night. One comic, who was a large man with frizzy hair, ended his routine something like:

'Living in L.A. is so interesting because you see celebrities every day. For example, the other day I was walking down LaCienega, and I saw MORRISSEY. And he was, you know, looking all sad and mopey, and he was carrying a chicken. Under his arm. Under his arm, Morrissey was carrying a chicken. And I said to Morrissey, why are you carrying that chicken under your arm? What could Morrissey possibly be doing with a chicken? I went home and called up all my friends and told them about it. [pause] WAIT. There's something horribly wrong with this story. I don't have any FRIENDS!'

There was no laughter until the end. I don't think anyone even laughed at the mention of Morrissey's name. However, the comic who was on next, a woman, said of the Morrissey-chicken-nofriends comic, 'I find that guy strangely hot.'

Were any of you there? Anyway...